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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: snuttall on Sunday 02 November 14 20:38 GMT (UK)
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Just a bit of fun really... what extra column(s) would be on the 1841-1911 censuses in your dreams to make your research easier/more interesting?
Personally I'd plump for a 'Son/daughter of' column (I know they'd probably have baulked at it at the time but this is fantasy so anything goes!)
Or another I'd find interesting would be Place of Work (in addition to occupation)
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A photo of each individual named and their BMD registration index cross referenced. I live in hope :D
Regards panda
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Actual county of birth if born in Ireland/Scotland/Wales and enumerated in England
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Actual county of birth if born in Ireland/Scotland/Wales and enumerated in England
Or the address of their birth ;D
Rishile
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Personally I'd plump for a 'Son/daughter of' column (I know they'd probably have baulked at it at the time but this is fantasy so anything goes!)
That would be most helpful to me and would break down my brickwall if, of course, it had been filled in correctly.
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"Aspirations in 25 words or less"
So their personal 'voice' can be heard even by us in the 21st century.
Cheers, JM
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hello, what i would have in the 1911 census,because of the space and its one family.
the names and dates of children who had died. why? i think the child who has
died between the 10 years should be remembered. it only in 1911 that you
find they had more children. afew times i found there was two john's in the
family.
if it was easy, would we be doing this ?
billy.
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I'd love a column on all documents which says . . . . .
"Related to you"
::)
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The church they followed. I'm following Smiths in the areas round Accrington at the moment, Great Harwood, Rishton, Clayton le Moors, Ribchester and it would be so much simpler to be certain that a particular John Smith was Catholic or Anglican, cb
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The names of their great, great grandchildren. ;) ;)
Regards
Malky
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"Previous address if not at present address for more than 10 years" - quite common on a multitude of forms nowadays but its usually limited to 3 - 5 years.
Making it 10 years, would make it so much easier to track people with common names through each census.
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'Maiden Name' would be useful.
Or even 'names of parents'.
Rishile
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Quite simply, "Exact Date of Birth". This for me would resolve a lot of conflicting records and would make it 100x easier to find the right person.
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Yes photographs - maiden names- and names of infants who died.. that would be great
xin
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I'd settle for neat writing and everything spelt correctly.
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...an assurance that they were telling the truth?
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I'd settle for neat writing and everything spelt correctly.
Wouldn't that be nice ;D
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hello, what i would have in the 1911 census,because of the space and its one family.
the names and dates of children who had died. why? i think the child who has
died between the 10 years should be remembered. it only in 1911 that you
find they had more children. afew times i found there was two john's in the
family.
if it was easy, would we be doing this ?
billy.
That's assuming that the parent has actually owned up to the correct number of children born. I have a family who conveniently forgot that a baby had died, why? I can only assume it was because the baby was born out of wedlock and the number of years married would not have tallied.
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Mine just lied about the number of years married - one year longer than age of oldest child. And more than one couple never actually married, in both cases one of them was already married to someone else.
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A lovely photo right next to their names!
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"What column(s) would you have on the census in your dreams?"
Any column in any Ireland census return, from the first serious attempt in 1821 up to 1891. We've lost nearly everything, what a tragedy for Ireland and the diaspora across the globe...
And it doesn't get any more cheerful for Northern Irish genealogy. While the 1901 and 1911 Ireland census returns are widely available, the history of Irish partition and other circumstances mean that there will be no other information available on Northern Ireland people for years, and years, and years...
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Personally I'd plump for a 'Son/daughter of' column (I know they'd probably have baulked at it at the time but this is fantasy so anything goes!)
My favourite. But they would have to add where their parents were born, too. ;)
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Personally I'd plump for a 'Son/daughter of' column (I know they'd probably have baulked at it at the time but this is fantasy so anything goes!)
Now that would be useful, with a hefty fine if they told a "porkie pie" :D Lots of mine gave pob as the parish they were living in and not the one they were born in ::)
Not sure how the genuine not knowns would reply though :-\
My favourite. But they would have to add where their parents were born, too. ;)
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Date & place of marriage. (As shown on Scottish birth records) Would make life a whole lot easier.
Trish
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YEs, I agree - names and birthplaces of parents, number of siblings, religion and place / date of marriage, legible writing, and a declaration on a stack of Bibles / other Holy Books that all the information given was correct - oh, and yes, can we have a magical discovery of all the Irish census results - oh, and perhaps somehow "discover a census about 1810 ( that'd possibly solve one of my problems) ... as well as a load of pre-reformation BMD details etc.
Oh, we don't want much, do we? But if we had it all so easily, then .... what would we all find to do??
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All of the above
PLUS the relaxation of the "100 yr rule" of closure....I SOOOOoooo need to see the 1921 census in order to break down a massive brickwall.
That's all ;)
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Yes. That'd be rather handy. Forgot that. We don't want a lot, do we? - Just EVERYTHING!
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If all of these "Wishes" came true then we would have no further research to do, then what would we do with our time ??
Trish
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Names of previous spouses.
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A little family tree, showing the previous five or six generations would be handy.
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If all of these "Wishes" came true then we would have no further research to do, then what would we do with our time ??
Trish
I am sure we would keep on looking for more info on our families